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A jam submission

Princess Past - GMTK2023View game page

Time is reversed in this 2D platformer, avoid paradoxes!
Submitted by Cloudy Games (@Cloudy2021) — 22 hours, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#1144.3134.313
Overall#11683.5633.563
Enjoyment#13353.3133.313
Presentation#26353.0633.063

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Time is reversed in this 2D platformer, try not to create paradoxes

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted

Super unique idea! One of the most unique takes on unnatural time flow I've seen! 

Submitted

this is a fun and unique concept!

Submitted

Really cool idea executed well.  Thought the reversed sounding music was a nice touch. 

Submitted

lmao, the idea is so fun, never thought of such a thing. great game to speedrun!

Submitted

Super super cool idea. I could see this being further developed into something awesome. Time bending mechanics are my fave. Great work!

Submitted

Cute little game and neat idea. It could definitelly be expanded further especially on the side of paradoxes, such as creating obstacle courses where you can only cross a certain path or only land on a certain platform once. Reverse time lends itself really well to puzzle mechanics and I figured this could see a lot more of those as well, such as one-time use springs to simulate landing from big heights and such. This would've most likely been too much for the time restraints but being able to see the whole level replay at forward speed would've been a fantastic way to end a level.

Submitted

Really cool idea. Leaving the collected coins behind and that not beeing allowed to touch them again is a great idea! Maybe have the time also run backwards as a time limit, seems like that would fit to.

Submitted

This is really really cool! There’s a lot of clever ideas here, like the reversed coins, bullets and life counter. It’s a great touch that the music itself is in reverse as well.

I did encounter some frustrations with the unforgiving coin paradox mechanic, which while I think is conceptually very cool, does punish the player quite harshly for a small mistake. Jaco van Hemert suggested a paradox meter, and I agree with that solution!

Submitted

Very clever! It felt a like a nod to Braid but with its own mechanics. I really like the idea, though there are some parts of it that can get a bit frustrating. Part of it is the precision required combined with the one-hit death part. Maybe if there was like a paradox meter that you fill up as you make mistakes to make it a bit more forgiving? Maybe two or three chances?

The platforming felt very "heavy", for lack of a better term. Up and down goes very fast, which adds to the difficulty in precision (perhaps on purpose?). I also would have liked some more forgiving hitboxes for the coin collections. Sometimes it felt like I was jumping past a coin but still collected it.

I loved the detail of the princess always moving backwards; that was nice. And having the coin counter and HP in reverse was very cool, though it was unclear whether that needed to be met by the end? (It didn't seem like it did.)